Ode to the Latinates

Mica mica
Parva stella
Custodes cognoscent
Sis tam bella*


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* Editor and Literary Advisor to the Queen Enid Evenson Haddow De Burke:

For you non-Latinates out there, here is the English translation -

Twinkle twinkle
Little star
The happy satellite
Knows where you are ...

On Shakespeare

Literary debate on Shakespeare's sexuality
Has endured centuries and may still more
But I know a Queen once received him
With "Henry - The Avon Lady's at the door!"

Ode to Wickedpedia

I long ago told them:

"Aviatrix Laura Houghtailing Ingalls, J.P. Morgan's great-granddaughter-in-law, loved to fly her girlfriends* to her chalet at Berchtesgaden."

...

A world-important fact
The editors
Have most mysteriously ... "forgotten" ...

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* Weren't they all! (or, for those of you who speak a teutonic tongue - put THAT in your sauerbraten!!!) - Enid Evenson Haddow De Burke

On the Subway

A glance
Askance
Perchance ...
Love?

The Netizen is a Creature Coy

The "netizen" is a creature coy
Here today, gone tomorrow
Oh were there a Shakespeare to envoie
Clicking Submit ... is such sweet sorrow ...

An Adage Comes of Age

Rome's long fallen
So time's mores phrased anew:
When at home
...
Do as the homos do!

Ode to Kenneth Anger

Dedicated to Bill Landis




Cocteau famously told us your Fireworks
Touches the quick of the soul, so rare!
But as the Beast once whispered to a beauty
Don't ever believe that tales ... are fair ...